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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"School Starting Age"”.
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The Effect of School Starting Age, Parent Education, and Gender on High School Academic Achievement and Extracurricular Participation
The problem. Is there a long-term effect of starting age on academic achievement, participation in athletics, student government and organizations, and fine arts, and the continuation of post-secondary education? Procedure. The graduates of a small rural high school over a five-year period made up …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… I find that the bias alters 1.9% of high school admission outcomes and contributes to 70% of the gender gap in 9th grade’s writing test. The challenge with identifying bias is that ability may be correlated with handwriting quality. To quantify handwriting quality, I conduct a field …
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Essays on the Economics of Education and Gender
… Chapter 1 examines the effect of elementary school teachers' beliefs about gender roles on student achievement. We exploit a natural experiment where teachers are assigned randomly to schools and students are allocated to teachers randomly. We show that girls who are taught for longer than a …
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Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools
… various mechanisms, put in place by the public school district, classroom student behavior, and negative external shocks to the students' living environment. I examine the impacts of various treatments on student short and long run academic outcomes such as math and English test scores, grade …
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The role of mental representations of order in mathematical cognition: a developmental approach
… during thefoundation years (between the ages of 4-6) and during Key Stage 2 (between theages of 8-11). Since the school starting age of children in Northern Ireland isthe youngest in Europe, the current thesis provides an insight into skills thatare important for maths learning amongst …